News // The Killers webcast for American Express Unstage series

The Killers are making a live webcast on youtube with Werner Herzog.

The Killers' 2012 Battle Born promo

The webcast,  part of the American Express Unstaged series, is going to happen at New York's Paradise Theater in the Bronx around 7pm (EST), on September 18th - check the related hours with your countries here.

Among several surprises and unique techonologies, to place some cameras to Ronnie Vannucci as well as to crowd surfing members as part of this big production.

To Rolling Stone, Mark Stoermer said the director has planned some unique ideas "He has ideas for someone crowd-surfing with a camera on. He's gonna put cameras on Ronnie while he's playing drums."
Remember the webcast is going to stream directly on the band's youtube - youtube.com/Thekillersvevo.

The Killers, Runaways

The Killers are an American rock band, known for hits like Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me, When You Were Young, Human or Spaceman.

The band was created in 2001 and the members are composed by Brandon Flowers (vocals and keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitars and backing vocals), Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums and percussion) and Mark Stoermer (bass guitar and backing vocals).
On live performances, and due to the amount of instruments they record on studio creating their incredibly amazing and rich music background sounds, they count with Rob Whited (percussion and backing vocals), Jake Blanton (guitars, keyboards and backing vocals) and Ted Sablay (guitars and keyboards).

So far, they have released three studio albums: Hot Fuss (2004), Sam's Town (2006) and Day & Age (2008). A forth album is set to be released next September 2012 with the name Battle Born.

Battle Born is a phrase that appears on the state flag of Nevada, from where the band is from.
There are some songs that were confirmed to be on the record's tracklist: Heart of a Girl, Flesh and Bone, Carry Me Home and the first confirmed single Runaways.

Runaways has a clear Bruce Springsteen influence, as mentioned on reviews by NME or Rolling Stone Magazine. This song is really the opposite of dancy songs like Human or Spaceman from their previous album but it's without any question a Killers song.
It's totally rock, full of darkness but a bit of light somewhere that brings us hope. With a strong story and followed by really well played instruments that really characterizes the band, it's good to accomplish "The Killers are back!"
Nevertheless, it's a powerful single, which brings some huge excitement to the rest of Battle Born.

"And I came home after they go to sleep
Like a stumbling ghost, I haunt this house
There's a picture of us on our wedding day
I recognize the proof but I can't settle in these walls"

News // Radiohead stage collapse victimizes band's drum tech

Last Saturday, June 16th, Scott Johnson was the victim of Radiohead's stage collapse. 

The band was going to perform in Toronto in Canada when only a hour before the door opening the stage collapsed - killing a man and leaving two other injured. 
Several people have already send their condolences to Scott's family, friends and people who directly worked with them.
Phil Selway left a message on Radiohead's website in name of the band: 

We have all been shattered by the loss of Scott Johnson, our friend and colleague. He was a lovely man, always positive, supportive and funny; a highly skilled and valued member of our great road crew. We will miss him very much. Our thoughts and love are with Scott's family and all those close to him.

Also several artists like Ronnie Vannucci from The Killers and Big Talk and Jack Lawrence-Brown from White Lies left their message on different social networks and Flaming Lips payed him a tribute on their live performance that night.

The band Keane - who previously worked with Scott - also left a message on their website

We lost our great friend Scott Johnson on Saturday. Scott has been part of our touring family since 2004, working as drum tech, stage manager, and studio tech, but he gave us so much more - he saw the good in everything. He was the cheerful, dependable guy you could always turn to, who lifted the spirits of everyone around him. We can't believe he's gone. Our thoughts are with his family and friends; Radiohead and their crew. We love you Scotty, we'll miss you.

All our thoughts go to his family, friends and people who were close to him.

For further information, check this Telegraph's news.  

News // The Killers release new album in 2012

The Killers are already preparing their forth album to be released on 2012.

Brandon Flowers spoke with Zane Lowe from BBC1 where Flowers confirmed the band is back together and preparing their new record.

On the telephone, Flowers told the Killers have already started to write new songs including one named Battleborn, which probably will be part of the album.

After releasing his solo work - Flamingo - The Killers' singer is really excited to be with the band again and promised very good news "We don't want to make a Hot Fuss 2, or Sam's Town 2 or Day & Age 2. (...) Maybe we will take all that stuff, and the best of all of them, and really do what we know how to do."

He also said on the interview that Brendan O'Brien and Steve Lillywhite were the producers that have work with The Killers so far.

The album has no title and has no releasing date yet, with Brandon Flowers confirming the album is going to be released on this year that's starting.

Listen Brandon Flowers' interview to BBC 1:

News // The Killers continue tradition and release Christmas song

As usual since a few years, the north-american band The Killers have now shared this year's Christmas song.

The band composed by Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. have a tradition since 2006 of releasing a Christmas song every year starting that year with A Great Big Sled.
This week, The Killers revealed the song The Cowboy's Christmas Ball was going to be 2011 Killers Christmas song.

All the funds gain with this song will be deliver to an association of fighting against AIDS in Africa, most surely (RED) read about it here.

With songs with an almost non-traditional Christmas song spirit, the songs include

A Great Big Sled (2006)

Don't Shoot Me Santa (2007)

Joseph, Better You Than Me (2008)

¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe! (2009)

Boots (2010)

News // Big Talk release new video "Big Eye"

The side project from the Killers Ronnie Vannucci Jr., Big Talk has released a new video promoting the new single from their self-titled album published this year.

Big Talk have other videos released like Replica, visit their official website for more information here.

The chosen single is Big Eye. The video features "a washed up middle age man day dreaming about the finer things in life, like beautiful women and rocking guitars in a smoke filled garage. See if his hazy dreams come true" according to Indie Rock Reviews.
Check the video below.

News // the Killers win MTV Poll for Best VMA Rock Performance

Las Vegas' band The Killers with Brandon Flowers, Ronnie Vannuci, Mark Stoermer and Dave Keuning, used Twitter to thank their fans the voting that happened on mtv website for Best VMA Rock Performance which would be announced on MTV VMA Awards, which happened last sunday.

Check the pool results right here.

The Killers won with their performance in 2005 of Mr. Brightside, beating bands like Metallica, Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Muse.

The band used twitter to thank the fans.

"Just found out about the VMA win.. Nobody has fans like you guys. Nobody! Thank you for hangin' with us. Lucky us" by thekillers

Big Talk, Getaways

There's not much information about them. 
We know that Ronnie Vannucci from the american band The Killers, which made a pause for two years and something and Ronnie and Brandon Flowers (Killers' singer) decided to created a personal project each, Brandon made his solo album "Flamingo", today was released Big Talk's first single named "Getaways".
It's more electronic than I expected, and I could never imagine how young Ronnie could sound but by being so different from what I am used to listen from The Killers I really enjoyed this song!
On the website dedicated to this project, Vannucci reveals that his long time friend Taylor Milne. He also says, on the post dedicated to explain the reasons for this project and who is in it, that he've created a label Little Oil to release the album but got a little help from this label named Epitaph Records.



They really got me interested and curious!

I'll keep an eye on their project from now on.

With love,
P x